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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I have always counted groups of things in threes, cards most commonly. The patterning takes more practice to get used to because the last digit doesn't repeat the way it does when you count by twos. I also count coins by 5s if I have a
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
This is hilarious :)
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
In my company, Slack has replaced email and Skype, so that we have fewer tools to search rather than more. The marginal gain is lightweight group discussion, and the ability to pull people into a conversation that's already in progress
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
> Beware of casting a float to a boolean That is a great expression and I'm stealing it! Sometimes it feels like most of my life is spent trying to teach others to cast booleans to floats. :)
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Bigger diamonds are more desirable than larger diamonds, not because of the price, but because they look better and are sparklier and harder to lose and all sorts of other real-world metrics. If I want $1000 of bitcoin, I don't care wh
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
This is a great tactic for ridding yourself of any unwanted thoughts. Learn to see them as "other" or a "mindvirus", not part of you. Learning to identify myself with the aspects of myself that I like has helped me in
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I can't believe that's possible. I really want to know where that number came from. Maybe you could reduce the weight of just the frame of the fuselage by 50%, but I bet you'd save at most 2-3% of the total takeoff weight, on
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
As best as I can tell, it means something like "using the generally available levers of social shame and guilt to dissuade someone from doing something, or if they have already done the bad thing, then requiring them to explain their b
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Which is really hard to do, because there aren't any corners in it. You need pull a Comey and hide in the drapes. EDIT: Apologies for the incorrect wording, I want to point out that you should stand AMONG the drapes, not IN the drapes.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Interestingly, where I'm from (BC, Canada), it's quite common to give distances between cities in terms of driving time. "Oh, Kelowna is about 5 hours away." Is this expression common anywhere else?
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Airbus uses them to move A380 parts around their factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_8xhCi72w
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
I think the intent here is to convince adherents of other tools to switch to pipenv. Having used most of the solutions in this thread, pipenv has been the simplest and the one that "just works" most often.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Yes, pipenv is great and I am hopeful it gets adopted into the standard.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
Pipenv has been my solution as well. It handles venvs for all my projects, dev/prod configuration files, and auto-generation of requirements files.
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
This thread is an instance of https://xkcd.com/927/
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by cecilpl2 8y ago
That's the best ELI5 analogy for orbit I've ever heard!
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
I have this too. Suddenly I realise that each line of code I am writing is a doorway to a different parallel universe. Or maybe that the numbers on the clock indicate the distance I have to run in the track meet. My girlfriend has told me t
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
That is a good point and I like the visual metaphor of bad agents "floating on top of the pool". I was considering the fairly narrow problem domain between say 20 and 40 agents, and the queue fills up to perhaps 50 pending tasks m
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
I see that on my continuous integration system. We use Teamcity with ~50 agents for build tasks that take 20-30 minutes. Each agent can only be running a single task. During the day, all agents are busy and the queue fills up with 30 or so
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
Each individual person might be better off having that choice, true. But setting up a system where this is an option, leads to a society where those people might not have the option of not submitting to experimentation.
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
There is a large group of people who are at the mercy of the system. They do not have the ability to be self-sufficient and are reliant on social assistance. There is now an incentive for the people who control the system to reduce the leve
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
100 people is 0.04%. 0.0004% is one person.
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
No because children are distinguishable. If you flip two coins, you get HH, HT, TH, and TT with equal probability. Try it.
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
It does if that other person has a reasonable expectation that you intended for it to be public. Leaving your property on the curb is a good example. If someone takes it, you would be hard pressed to get it back from a legal standpoint. Thi
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
You are thinking of the Red/Green/Blue Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
You know you have a giant prize and glory awaiting you right?
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
Except this teenager was explicitly authorized to access all those files. He literally asked the web server "can I have these files" and it responded with "yes, you are authorized, here you go". If he wasn't authori
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
You are correct in a Bayesian sense, but until everyone is trained to be a Bayesian reasoner in primary school, we need to build the system in a way that ensures evidence is considered properly.
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
Yes, they mean to get a PhD 6 years after you graduate high school.
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by cecilpl2 9y ago
This is commonly referred to as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".

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